Early diagnosis of prostate cancer, the sixth deadliest cancer type in men, can significantly increase the survival rate. For most men, the 5-year survival rate for local or regional tumors is around 100%. This number drops to~30% when it spreads to other regions1. Therefore, early...
Microfluidic chips are enabling handheld devices that are ideally suited for real-time analysis in biological and chemical assays. For example, they have been successfully used in a multitude of platforms such as organ-on-a-chips for real-time investigation of cell-cell and cell-environment interactions. The microfluidics field, however,...
Droplet microfluidics has proven as a revolutionary technique for single-cell analysis due to its high-throughput, uniformity, modularity. However, its applications are limited to single-cell analysis. High-throughput-experimentation enabled by droplet microfluidics can be employed for efficient exploration of numerous chemical reactions for catalysis and reaction discovery....
Organ-on-a-chip systems are well established as 3D cell culture microfluidic models capable of recapitulating the in vitro microenvironment of the cells. Organ-on-a-chips can differ in various aspects such as having a monoculture/coculture, mechanical components, electrical elements for actuation or real-time readouts, etc. The combination of...
Microfluidics has opened new windows of opportunities to researchers all around the world with various backgrounds. Although some applications such as organ on a chip and droplet microfluidics are quite established, newer applications are emerging as the field grows and more researchers gain access to...